Broadcaster, writer, journalist, based Dublin, Ireland.

Very simply, I’m just an authority-loving anti-authoritarian, left and right wing hippy individualist goth indie pop prog rock album track single hit lover, in love with technology but pining for my simple past as a sailor.

Part broadcaster (Phantom 105.2), part journalist, part writer, and living in Dublin since returning home from the UK in 2000.

In the late 1980s I worked offshore for Radio Caroline as Head of News and presenter (and eventually Programme Director) for the Caroline 558 service. This was a wonderful time, great radio, and great fun. I stayed with Caroline past the end of offshore broadcasting, and until the 1991 shipwreck when I was one of the people rescued by helicopter (thank you RAF!) after we ran aground on the Goodwin Sands.

In one way the offshore days with Caroline are far in the past now, in others they have never left me, and truth be told there is hardly a week goes by that I don’t think wistfully of how nice it would be to be 18 miles out in the middle of a moonlit sea playing music and just hanging out.

I now work for Phantom 105.2 in Dublin, which has much of the great music and freedom that Caroline offered, but somewhat less of the drama and uncertainty.

I currently present the Sunday evening all-request show “Random Access” from 7-9pm.

I’ve written a book about my experiences with Caroline and the last few years at sea, as we lurched from crisis to crisis, and having found an agent in the wonderful Seven Towers Agency I am now going through the pain of editing, and sailing towards the hope of publication.

Musically my tastes are very varied, in my time I have played everything from soft pop to hard rock via goth, indie, country and blues, and enjoyed it all.

I’d love to live in a huge dusty library on board a radioship in International waters, but just for now, I’ll have to live in the real world.

Steve